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Record: MDI52J02NE00027

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Copper

Location

Township or Area: Beckington Lake Area

Latitude: 50° 8' 50.39"    Longitude: -90° 35' 12.09"

UTM Zone: 15    Easting: 672416.607   Northing: 5557800.086    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Kenora

NTS Grid: 52J02NE

Point Location Description: Multiple Pits on a vein system

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: The occurrence can be reached by boat or aircraft in summer from access points near King Bay of Sturgeon Lake. In winter local trails from the Beckington Lake road may allow access to Northeast Arm of Sturgeon Lake.

Exploration History

E.S. Moore visited the the site in 1911 and reported on it. 1970: McCrae Mining Ltd. commissioned an aerial geophysical survey over the Northeast Arm of Sturgeon Lake. The EM and magnetic surveys bordered the Powell occurrence but did not cover the areas above water level (SLKT 52J/02NE-0028-B1). 1981: Sherritt Gordon Mines Limited did a mapping and sampling program over the Davidson-Carr claims which were held by prospector S. Johnson at the time. The geologist on the survey examined the Powell occurrence and recommended additional work on it (SLKT 52J/02NE-0036-B1). 1981: Sherritt Gordon Mines Limited carried out ground level EM and magnetic surveys over a block of claims that included the Davidson-Carr and Powell properties in a 24 claim block. (SLKT 52J/02NE - 0059). 1982: Sherritt Gordon Mines Limited carried out geological and geophysical surveys over the Powell occurrence which included analyses of grab samples for gold on the Powell property and limited mapping over the site. 1982: Sherritt Gordon Mines Limited produced detailed maps of the surface of the Powell and Davidson-Carr properties along with a table of gold and silver assays from samples selected from the two properties (SLKT 52J/02NE-0039-B1). 1988: Villeneuve Resources Ltd. conducted drilling programs on the Davidson-Carr and Powell properties.

Assessment Work on File

Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - The veins appear to lie along the contact of a band of basic volcanics on the southeast and felsic volcanics (quartz-porphyry) on the north-west. The volcanics strikenortheasterly. The basic volcanics to the northwest of the shaft are highly sheared and form a northwesterly facing fault scarp which on the geology and magnetometer maps trend to the southwest, where it intersects the area of the Richelieu Mine.There appears to be two sets of veins on the property, striking N45E and N30W. The vein in the No. 1 shaft (main shaft) at the top of the hill is not readily observable because of the rock debris piled around the shaft. The vein, as observed in the shaft, appears to be about 16 in wide, dips vertically and strikes toward No. 2 shaft, located about 100 feet north-easterly on the side of the hill. The vein in the No. 2 shaft is about 5in wide at surface and occupies a shear zone about 3 1/2 feet wide. Further down the shaft the vein was observed to widen out to about 12in . The quartz vein at surface assayed 0.022 oz Au (Sample No.B1-253). The shear zone assayed a trace gold (Sample No. B1-254,B1-255). A gossan sample from the vein area assayed 0.002 oz gold (Sample No. B1-261). A second set of narrow quartz veins occupy the north wall of the pit (#2 shaft). They strike north-easterly and dip 30 south-easterly. The two sets of veins appear to be coeval. This set of veins was not sampled. On the lakeshore in the area of C.S. 516N two vertical, parallel quartz veins about 15ft apart strike south-easterly for a distance of about 25ft and terminate in the chlorite schist.The more northerly vein is about 25in wide at the lakeshore, and assayed a trace gold (Sample No. B1-242). The more southerly vein is about 15in wide and also assayed a trace gold (Sample No. B1-244).

Lithology

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - 1980-82: Surface sampling produced several samples with best assays up to 2.07 ounce gold per ton and 1.07% copper. 1988: 6 ddh drilled, best section at 202.2 ft - 0.87 ounce gold per ton over 4 ft.

Jul 27, 2022 (Q Unknown) - 1982: Gold assays of 0.18 to 0.64 ounce gold per ton were returned from selected grab samples in a quartz vein approximately 1 foot wide. This vein contained pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite as well as rare visible gold (SLKT 52J/02NE-0022-A1). 1988: DDH P-88-2 on the Powell property intersected a 4 foot long intersection which assayed 0.87 ounce gold per ton (SLKT 52J/02NE-0066).

Alteration Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (R Tuomi) - Shearing.

Mineral Record Details

References

File - Resident Geologist files 52J02NE-0022-A1

Publication Number: Date:

Author:

Publisher Name:

Location: Kenora RGP

Part - The Sturgeon Lake gold field

Publication Number: ARV20-01.005 Page: 150  Date: 1998

Author: Moore E.S.

Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines

Location:

MonoMap - Geology of the Squaw Lake-Sturgeon Lake area, District of Thunder Bay

Publication Number: R227 Page: 88, 91  Date: 1983

Author: Trowell N.F.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

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